Homophobia and football

Arena Friday 2 May 2014

coming up on Thursday's show....a preview of the new season of House of Cards, "When I Hit You: A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife" by Meena Kandasamy and films for review include the new "Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge", the 2017 re-boot of "Baywatch" and Oscar-nominated"The Red Turtle"

Arena

Daily arts and popular culture show

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Arts News

with Alan Corr - Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis and Jonathan Price in the cast of the BBC tv adaptation the Wolf Hall, Jeremy Paxman to try his hand at comedy, a growing hurling hip hop culture in Ireland - rap song The Art of the Clash already making waves

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Arts News, Alan Corr

Brown Bag fundraising film

Damien O’Connor and David McCamley from Brown Bag films talk about their new short film “Anya” made to raise funds for the Debbie Deegan charity To Russia With Love

Watch the film at brownbagfilms.com

Donate at torussiawithlove.ie

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Brown Bag, animation, Russia, Debbie Deegan, charity, orphanage

Ireland/Hungary cultural links

Evelyn O’Rourke reports from the launch of the book “The Club At Eddy’s Bar” by Zoltan Boszormenyi which explores the cultural links between Hungary and Ireland (published by Phaeton Publishing)

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Hungary, culture, The Club At Eddy's Bar

Homophobia and football

the actor/playwright Rob Ward talks about his role in “Away From Home”, a play about the culture of homophobia in football which is on in Dublin next week as part of the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

Full listings at www.gaytheatre.ie

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Theatre, gay, homophobia, football

Album Reviews

Sinead Gleeson and John Meagher review new albums - "Sheezus" by Lily Allen, "I Never Learn" by Lykke Li and "Nikki Nack" by Tune Yards

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album reviews, Lily Allen, Lykke Li, Tune Yards

Music Played on the Show

Air Balloon

Lily Allen